PATERSON — The 21-year-old substitute teacher charged last week with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old male student at Manchester Regional High School also sent sexually explicit photos to a different student, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Linda Hardan, 21, now faces an additional charge of third-degree endangering the welfare of a minor after Passaic County Prosecutors said they developed evidence that Harden sent explicit photos to a separate 16-year-old Manchester Regional student.
Prosecutors did not say who was in the photos or what was depicted.
Hardan, of Prospect Park, was charged late last week after allegedly sexually assaulting a male student in Wayne on Thursday.
A graduate of Manchester Regional, Hardan was an employee of the Passaic County Education Services Commission. She worked at MRHS a handful of times and substituted for a science teacher last week, Manchester Regional Superintendent Richard Ney said last week.
"We are disappointed to learn that someone who occasionally worked as a substitute at the school engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a student," he told NJ Advance Media.
Hardan remains lodged in Passaic County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail with no 10-percent option.
If convicted on all charges, Hardan could face more than two decades in prison.
